alt Hacker NewsNah, billionaires understand class solidarity (not intentionally, but coercively, because they have to to get where they are). They'll carve out fiefdoms where they don't step on each other but step on all us (for a tech example, see ISPs)
Nah, billionaires understand class solidarity (not intentionally, but coercively, because they have to to get where they are). They'll carve out fiefdoms where they don't step on each other but step on all us (for a tech example, see ISPs)
On the way up, yes. But once they're there, no. As soon as the only way of getting more power is to take over someone else's fiefdom, all that class solidarity disappears.
See the recent purges of the military leadership in China. Or Putin's cronies continually accidentally falling out of windows. It's not safe near the top.